I Know It Was the Blood: Prophetic Initiation and Retributive Justice in the Narratives of John Marrant, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass
This article emphasizes the generative impact of West African religious culture on early African American Christians by analyzing the use of two symbols, wilderness and blood, in the autobiographical accounts of John Marrant, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass. I use Theophus Smith's notion of...
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[2019]
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Journal of Africana religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 7, Issue: 2, Pages: 234-254 |
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Africa
/ Popular belief
/ Influence
/ The Americas
/ Blacks
/ Christianity
B Marrant, John 1755-1791 / Turner, Nat 1800-1831 / Douglass, Frederick 1818-1895 / Autobiography / Wilderness areas (Motif) / Blood (Motif) |
RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy AE Psychology of religion AG Religious life; material religion BS Traditional African religions CB Christian life; spirituality FD Contextual theology KBN Sub-Saharan Africa KBQ North America NBK Soteriology TJ Modern history |
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